#software humor

[mentalisttraceur-humor]

mentalisttraceur don't get mad at someone else's software before it turns out the problem is in your own software challenge (impossible difficulty)

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Developer: I consent.

Language: I consent.

Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? [Every other developer who has to read this code after you.]

[therefinedtroll]

True

[retrogamingblog2]

[elperteinpine]

[punstars]

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Thousands of replies and no one has properly helped OP!

First, since Python won't let us have an if-elif chain that's as long as we need in the source itself, we need a way to generate it. Generators are perfect for this, and very Pythonic:

def _is_even_branches():     yield 'if a == 0: return True'     number = 1     while True:         yield f'elif a == {number}: return False'         number += 1         yield f'elif a == {number}: return True'         number += 1

That generator never finishes, which is good design because it lets the calling code control how high to generate.

Next, we're going to need a better Python - but we can optimize by just implementing the subset of Python that we need: it only needs to interpret lines in the form `(if|elif) a == <integer>: return (True|False)`:

def _is_even_evaluator(lines, a_value):     for line in lines:         condition, body = line.split(": ")         if_or_elif, a_name, equals, number = condition.split()         assert if_or_elif in ('if', 'elif')         assert a_name == 'a'         assert equals == '=='         # `int` raises ValueError if it can't parse         if int(number, base=10) == a_value:             return_, result = body.split()             assert return_ == 'return'             assert result in ('False', 'True')             return eval(result)             # The above `eval` is safe             # so long as you don't turn on             # Python's optimization option             # (which skips all asserts).

And now, finally:

def is_even(number):     if number < 0:         number = -number     return _is_even_evaluator(_is_even_branches(), number)

So python is apparently unable to handle if-statement with more than 2996 elif’s, which is fair, however, it’s really limiting my implentation of an is_even function

Any ideas on how I can work around this?

[computer-nerd-girl]

[nixcraft]

the current status of FLOSS

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Software authors experience a similar struggle, but luckily we are more likely to have liberating accidents with "rm -rf".

I often wonder what happened to authors of unfinished fanfictions.

[mentalisttraceur-software]

If you elect me as your dictator, all Archived repositories on GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg/etc will be required by law to say why they are archived.

The penalty for non-compliance shall be a light (for I am merciful) public flogging, repeated only once a month (for I am merciful) until compliance is achieved.

For those who cannot muster even a sentence of explanation, several generic but sufficient explanations will be made available for you to copy-paste from (for I am merciful), such as

"this package is still perfectly good, but I am no longer maintaining it",

"I have realized there are flaws in the design which are best solved with an alternative API/workflow/etc",

"this was just experimental, it's probably still very broken" and

"this has been superseded by a superior [upstream | 3rd-party] solution".

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[animentality]

my boss is like, make a pull request, and I'm like ok, and then a week later, he's like why haven't you updated (whatever), and I'm like, because it's in a pull request you have to approve, and he's like oh I haven't gotten around to looking at that.

like no shit.

check your pull requests before complaining I'm not doing anything. I can't merge with master myself here, buddy, old pal.

[dailytransitiongoal]

transition goal<3

[psvcomic]

[puneet07]

That moment when you get free basic SEO from TechLogic Softwares and feel like a no one can beat me! 😂